(OT) private
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Sun Aug 10 02:05:30 CDT 2003
On Saturday 09 August 2003 4:37 pm, Uncle Jim wrote:
> > Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that the May release of
> > SpamAssassin doesn't catch as much as the releases from last fall? Is
> > this because they wanted to rely more on the Beysian filter?
> No, I've been quite happy with version 2.55. Very little spam gets through
> and when I look at the spam which does, the Bayesian test usually shows at
> least 80%. It took quite a bit of training before it started using the
> Bayesian filter.
I think that's the thing, I haven't been able to do the Bayesian training yet,
and I'm getting loads of crap to do it with.
How imporant is it to have a "ham" - which I assume means genuine messages -
database as opposed to just a spam collection?
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